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12 Jun, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Going through a video interview between my fellow debate participant @OfficialCWATSON and popular YouTuber @Friended4Ever. I’m hoping Christian is willing to provide some evidence for his claims! 🧵
This is pretty amazing. Because CRT emphasizes the role of white supremacy in society, the need to study institutions to understand oppression, and the need of historical analysis to understand the impact of the past on the present and future, Christian says it is “an ideology.”
The grain of truth at the end of what Christian says here is that I objected to him calling CRT a method. It is not a method. Because some CRT scholars study law, others sociology, others moral and political theory, there is no one method all critical race theorists employ.
Lol, Adam is absolutely right here. Sucks he (and now his fans) think Aaron and I disagree with him.

Also would love to see where in the debate Christian “kept saying... the impact of Black folks being incarcerated more than White folks for nonviolent crimes... is a bad thing.”
Christian is trying to portray our disagreement as merely over whether the policies were racist. Here’s how that went down, in his view:

Me: That’s racist.
CW: How?
Me: Because Black folks are being affected.

Wow, such a convincing argument. I’ve outdone myself!
Lol this is actually funny to me. @Friended4Ever you had so much praise for Christian at the beginning but here you are exposing the basic problem at the heart of his rhetorical strategy.

But do you really think calling crack sentencing laws “racist” is an evil redefinition?

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12 Jun
While I was caught up with debate highlights, my friend @WLucasAnthro uploaded our 2nd conversation on his podcast. We talked about misrepresentations of postmodernism from the GS Hoaxers and Jordan Peterson, plus the CRT moral panic. A great discussion!

It seems our first discussion -- see link in the quoted tweet -- was swarmed by fans of James Lindsay and Jordan Peterson, leaving plenty of critical comments and a nasty dislike ratio. So we decided to put out another video addressing criticisms.
Here I describe how the authors of Cynical Theories engage in a strategy I think Peterson is also guilty of in his anti-pomo lectures: you take the worst possible example of a certain brand of scholarship, then project its pathologies onto all you can tenuously associate with it.
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11 Jun
It's that time folks: time for a highlight reel cataloguing the best and worst moments from the debate/car crash rollercoaster that @ETVPod and I had with some noble cultural warriors on the other side about CRT. 🧵

Let's start with my favorite short clip. Pure chef's kiss.
I think it's best to put these in chronological order; many clips refer to previous events in the "debate."

Here Karlyn Borysenko, Ph.D. (Capella University) introduces herself. "Everything that Sam and Aaron are going to bring to this conversation, I really don't care."
Originally I wasn't going to include this; it's not really much of a highlight, it's just where I introduce myself. But for the purposes of exposing rhetorical tricks, it'll be useful to include in the thread.
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8 Jun
I just read through this interview between @clairlemon and @HPluckrose. A few gems worth highlighting, so I’ll do a quick thread 🧵 quillette.com/2021/05/25/pod…
Helen attributes this to Foucault, as she does in Cynical Theories. Still waiting on a citation. If anyone finds one, let me know—or let Helen know, I’m sure she would find it useful to actually provide page numbers in the book’s second edition.
I love this claim, that systematic analyses of patriarchy/white supremacy etc. are invented by Foucault, and that no women or people of color were capable of coming up with this radical concept on their own before him.
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8 Jun
So, I read Rufo's "Critical Race Theory Briefing Book." It's not exactly surprising, of course. But it's worse than I anticipated. Rufo hits four out of five of the key tenets of White supremacist victim ideology.

Time for a thread. 🧵
To orient ourselves, it's worth remembering that Rufo is shamelessly lying about what CRT is. He has in fact told the world that this is his goal: to mislead the American public by turning it into a one-size-fits-all "culture war stuff I hate" label.
This doesn't excuse any of his lying of course, it just helps us understand what he is actually trying to accomplish.

Here's his attempt at a definition. Red highlights, throughout this thread, denote blatant falsehoods.

His additional sources here: both authored by himself.
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29 May
Everyone should know @ConceptualJames & @HPluckrose are responsible for feeding the entire reactionary anti-woke ecosystem dogshit interpretations of scholarship. They’re seen as top IDW experts.

How did James respond to my review of Cynical Theories? 🧵
liberalcurrents.com/the-cynical-th…
James’ first strategy is to poll his followers to ask whether he should address my critiques, calling me a “griefer who knows better than everybody.” One of his followers thinks this would be helpful; many seem to agree. James resorts to complaining about how much work it’d take.
His next move is to claim that, in fact, my review isn’t actually reasonable criticism; it just LOOKS like it is. He follows this up by accusing me of being unsure about the sum of 2 + 2 — despite the fact I never weighed in on this Conceptual Controversy!
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29 May
Honestly, this is a remarkable demonstration of the strawman fallacy. Kudos to @sullydish for giving us such a clear antithesis of basic rhetorical etiquette.

andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/removing-the…
Here we get the claim that “critical theory” rejects fallibilism, objectivity, accountability, and pluralism. None of this is true.
Then Sullivan claims that because “critical theory defines itself” as questioning certain things, it’s aiming to destroy liberal modernity.

There are so many mistakes in this paragraph I don’t even know where to start. From the third sentence on, almost every claim is false.
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